HMS Tortola
Service
- as USS Peyton22 May 1946 — 3 July 1946
- as HMS Tortola16 May 1944 — August 1945469 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Tortola
- Pennant / hull number
- PG-199
- Namesake
- British name assigned in anticipation of ships transfer to United Kingdom
- Laid down
- 16 October 1943
- Launched
- 16 November 1943
- Commissioned
- 16 May 1944
- Decommissioned
- August 1945
- Struck
- 3 July 1946
- Fate
- Returned to U.S. Navy 22 May 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,264 long tons (1,284 t)
- Length
- 92.35 m (303 ft)
- Beam
- 11.28 m (37 ft)
- Draught
- 3.96 m (13 ft)
- Speed
- 20 knots (37 km/h, 23 mph)
- Complement
- 190
- Main gun
- 76 mm (3 in)
HMS Tortola was a Colony-class frigate/Tacoma-class patrol frigate of the United States Navy. She carried the pennant number PG-199. Her keel was laid on 16 October 1943. Launched on 16 November 1943, she entered service on 16 May 1944.
She was one of 45 ships of her class.
Displacement was 1,264 long tons. She measured 92.3 m (303 ft) long with a beam of 11.3 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 20 knots, and she carried a complement of 190.
Her main battery was three 76 mm (3 in) guns.
She served with the United States Navy as USS Peyton until 3 July 1946. She then passed to the Royal Navy, serving as HMS Tortola from 16 May 1944. She was in commission for 469 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in August 1945. She was struck from the register on 3 July 1946.
She was transferred on 22 May 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 3 × boilers
- 2 × turbines, 5500 shp each
- 2 shafts
- Armament
- 3 × single 3 in/50 cal. AA guns
- 2 × twin 40 mm guns
- 9 × single 20 mm
- 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar
- 8 × Y-gun depth charge projectors
- 2 × depth charge racks
Sister ships
- HMS Anguilla
- HMS Antigua (K501)
- HMS Ascension
- HMS Bahamas
- HMS Barbados (K504)
- HMS Caicos
- HMS Cayman
- HMS Dominica (K507)
- HMS Gold Coast (K584)
- HMS Hong Kong (K585)
- HMS Labuan
- HMS Montserrat
- HMS Nyasaland
- HMS Papua
- HMS Perim
- HMS Pitcairn
- HMS Sarawak
- HMS Seychelles
- HMS Sierra Leone (K593)
- HMS Somaliland
- HMS St. Helena
- HMS Tobago (K585)
- HMS Zanzibar
- USS Hallowell (PF-72)
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Tortola on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Coote, R G G (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 25716 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons